Filmmaking
Quando o marido de Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, está bem doente, Agnes diz que queria ficar o mais perto possível dele e ajudá-lo o máximo que ela podia. Então, para o filme sobre a vida dele que ela dirige, ela faz essas cenas com a câmera bem próxima dele, mostrando partes do corpo dele (o cabelo, a pele, os olhos). No cinema essas cenas são chamad
... See moreMy roots in Brazil are very deep and I decided to stay. I also want to work in Portuguese. I speak English, but it’s not the same, you know. I don’t feel emotions in English like I feel like in Portuguese. When you say ‘mango tree’, I think just mango tree in English; but in Portuguese, it means my childhood, my mother’s house, the fragrance of fre... See more
Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles on directing Anthony ...
"Filming you with a camera is basically an excuse just to look at you."
— Jane by Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin
O cinema faz-se com os outros, mas é terrivelmente solitário. Para mim, sempre foi assim, algo da ordem da doença. É por isso que grandes cineastas tratam da sua doença num filme e que, quando o vemos, ele tem um poder curativo. Alguns filmes curaram-me, e esta componente solitária do cinema é muito importante para mim.
Pedro Costa and the Revolutionary Constellation of Portuguese ...
Não me considero diretora, só queria fazer um filme sobre minha mãe, pegar uma câmera e olhá-la muito de perto, ter uma desculpa para observá-la, fotografá-la, cada detalhe dela.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: “Nunca gostei de mim mesma. Perto da minha mãe, tinha vergonha de mim”
“If I did not live in a time when film was accessible to me as a medium, I would have been a dancer, perhaps, or a singer. But this is a much more marvellous dance. In film, I can make the world dance!”
—Maya Deren
—Maya Deren
Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for Camera - The Culturium -
Meshes of the Afternoon is my point of departure. I am not ashamed of it, for I think that, as a film, it stands up very well. From the point of view of my own development, I cannot help but be gently proud that that first film — that point of departure — had such relatively solid footing. This is due to two major facts: first, to the fact that I h... See more
The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
David Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, becaus... See more
Doing a movie, by definition, is always jumping into the unknown, even if you have a full script and know all your dialogue.